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The valve-setter's guide; a treatise on the construction and adjustment of the principal valve gearings used on American locomotive (1910)

Kennedy, James, 1848-1922 · New York, A. Sinclair company · leaf 15

An illustration from The valve-setter's guide; a treatise on the construction and adjustment of the principal valve gearings used on American locomotive, 1910, leaf 15 — alve. If the valve was soconstructed as to cover the two steamports exactly it can be readily perceivedthat a movement of the valve in eitherdirection would open one of the steamports leading to the cylinder and openthe other steam port to the inner cavity ofthe valve, thereby opening the… … FIG. i. SLIDE VALVE WITHOUT LAP. boiler pressure and when released by theopening of the exhaust port, as alreadyalluded to, the loss of steam at each strokewould be equal to the full capacity of thecylinder and steam spaces. In its primi-tive form the slide valve was constructedin this way and was…

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